Galaxy Zoo 2
Galaxy Zoo 2 has launched and they’re asking users to give more detail and therefore have more fun!
Tag Archives: Galaxies
Spitzer’s Galaxy
A fantastic image from the Spitzer Space Telescope (which you’ll see all over the web today) of our own Milky Way galaxy. The team have release a Google Maps API type site that lets you browse the galaxy in the infrared with some guidance.
Galaxy Zoo Says Thanks
Galaxy Zoo has put up a sort of thank you poster to all its volunteers. The names listed are those people who, when signing up to Galaxy Zoo, gave permission for their names to be published. There are a lot of names, including some funny ones. It’s worth taking a look.
Giant Cloud of Antimatter Explained
I always wondered where they get all the antimatter to power the starships in Star Trek. Maybe they get it from the centre of the galaxy. New results from NASA’s INTEGRAL spacecraft, which tracks gamma ray emissions, may have explained the origin of the cloyd of antimatter that seems to be hanging around the centre [...]
Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of the Day (APOD)
I love NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, known to its friends as APOD. So to honour that Great website, which has been running for more than a decade, I here present my own personal top ten list of APODs. They may not be quite the same as anyone else Top Ten but they represent [...]
The 10 Strangest (Real) Things in Space
I recently saw a Digg article which linked to a space.com page about the 10 Strangest Things in Space. All but 2 of the items were not pictures at all but computer simulations, or artists impressions. So here to correct this injustice to phenomena everywhere I present the REAL 10 Strangest Things in Space – [...]
Open Source Astronomy: Galaxy Zoo
Just the other day I was opining about how the internet needs to get in bed with science a bit more. Well lo and behold here is a fantastic example of just such a thing: Galaxy Zoo.
I saw the link on Chris Lintott’s blog and then later on Digg, but basically this is an exercise [...]
Blowing Smoke
A while ago I posted about the Bullet Cluster, and an image which seems to reveal the dark matter within it. Now a new image from Hubble seems to do the same thing for the galaxy cluster CL0024+17.
Now I am personally rather sceptical about the validity of images such as these, although I feel sure [...]
Brightest Supernova Ever Recorded
NASA’s Chandra observatory, in unison with ground-based optical telescopes, has relased details of a supernova from last September which is the brightest ever recorded. SN 2006gy exploded in galaxy NGC 1260 and was the brightest such event ever seen. NGC 1260 is 240 million light years away and the supernoa appeared to outshine the entries [...]
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